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Articles Written by: GARY WEISS
Who is This?
Gary Weiss is an American investigative journalist, columnist and author of two books that critically examine the ethics and morality of Wall Street.
Once there was a simpler time, when pretty much everything that happened in the financial world had a straightforward explanation. Take the crash of Oct. 19, 1987. In one day, the stock market lost more than one-fifth of its value. Back then there was ...
Readers of this blog may find this article in Slate's The Big Money of interest, particularly the last part, in which I cite an academic study that debunks the theory that Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were brought down by naked shorting.
The study ...
From GARY WEISS,
Seeking Alpha,
13 Nov 2009
This isn't likely to get much notice, but it's pretty big news: the SEC actually enforced one of the most crucial regulations preventing public companies from cooking the books, known as Regulation G. The agency reached a settlement yesterday with ...
The 536 exhibits released by the SEC Inspector General late Friday on Bernie Madoff don't seem to contain any explosive new revelations, but underscore an essential point about SEC investigations: if you are the target of a probe, just lie, again and ...
From GARY WEISS,
ETF Investor,
2 Nov 2009
Notes of Bernie Madoff's interview with the SEC inspector general were released on Friday, and they make fascinating reading--as long as you keep in mind that Madoff was lying through his teeth, primarily to protect people.
Here's the SEC exhibits ...
From GARY WEISS,
ETF Investor,
2 Nov 2009
It's still unclear how many former BusinessWeek editors will be hired by Bloomberg L.P., but one thing is increasingly clear: it could have been a hell of a lot worse. Peter Kafka describes the nightmare scenario: a purchase by private equity ...
From GARY WEISS,
Seeking Alpha,
2 Nov 2009
Continuing the maddeningly inconsistent coverage of the sale of BusinessWeek, Reuters reported that McGraw-Hill (MHP) is "leaning heavily" toward selling BusinessWeek to Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, Keith Kelly reports in the New York Post that all is quiet ...
From GARY WEISS,
Seeking Alpha,
30 Sep 2009
F or people who rarely get out of the office, Wall Streeters whine a lot these days about “level playing fields.” Leave us alone, they say, keep the government out of our business, let us do our own job of keeping the markets “fair and efficient” all by ...
From GARY WEISS,
Globe and Mail,
24 Sep 2009
My old colleague Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek's innovation guru, has an interesting blog post that is pretty much a first: a current BW staffer publicly engaging in soul-searching about the magazine's troubles, rather than just blaming it on the ...
From GARY WEISS,
Seeking Alpha,
21 Sep 2009
I've chronicled in this blog how my alma mater BusinessWeek has been decimated in recent years, with layoffs that have ousted its most experienced writers and editors. That, combined with an ill-conceived redesign and other missteps, has hurt the ...
From GARY WEISS,
ETF Investor,
16 Sep 2009
